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Cities, real and ideal : categories for an urban ontology /
Cities are conspicuous among settlements because of their bulk and pace: Venice, Paris, or New York. Each is distinctive, but all share a social structure that mixes systems (families, businesses, and schools), their members, and a public regulator. Cities alter this structure in ways specific to th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Frankfurt :
Ontos Verlag,
2010.
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| Colección: | Categories (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) ;
v. 2. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Cities are conspicuous among settlements because of their bulk and pace: Venice, Paris, or New York. Each is distinctive, but all share a social structure that mixes systems (families, businesses, and schools), their members, and a public regulator. Cities alter this structure in ways specific to themselves: orchestras play music too elaborate for a quartet; city densities promote collaborations unachievable in simpler towns. Cities, Real and Ideal avers with von Bertalanffy, Parsons, Simmel, and Wirth that a theory of social structure is empirically testable and confirmed. It proposes a versi. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (280 pages). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783110321968 3110321963 3110321629 9783110321623 |